Path: bloom-picayune.mit.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!americast.com!americast.com!americast-post Newsgroups: americast.twt.news From: americast-post@AmeriCast.Com Organization: American Cybercasting Approved: americast-post@AmeriCast.com Subject: Headline Article Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 14:23:38 EST Message-ID: \SE A;TOP OF THE NEWS;WORLD \BY FROM WIRE DISPATCHES AND STAFF REPORTS S=NEW STORY Amazon tribe agrees to free 81 hostages RIO DE JANEIRO - An Indian tribe in northern Brazil has agreed to free 81 hostages after the government promised to remove a squatters' village from their Amazonian reserve, the TV Globo network reported yesterday. TV Globo said the accord was negotiated between Guajajara tribal leaders and Justice Minister Mauricio Correa. The hostages have been held since Nov. 2 along a jungle highway about 1,400 miles northwest of Rio in Maranhao state. The Guajajara have long demanded that the government remove some 6,000 residents from Sao Pedro dos Cacetes, a village illegally settled 50 years ago in the middle of their Canabrava reservation. The current dispute began 10 days ago when three hired gunmen murdered a Guajajara chief's son. S=NEW STORY Chechen leader fears Russian invasion MOSCOW - Chechen leader Dzhokhar Dudayev declared a state of emergency in his Caucasus republic yesterday after Moscow moved troops to a neighboring region to quell ethnic violence. Gen. Dudayev also issued a decree for "a unified defense mobilization system" to counter Russian forces if they attack, Itar-Tass news agency said. A Russian airborne regiment, Interior Ministry forces and police commandos yesterday moved into neighboring Ingushetia, whose borders with the breakaway Chechen republic are undefined. TV reports said the troops met no resistance as they entered Nazran, the Ingush capital, to impose calm after a territorial dispute with the nearby autonomous republic of North Ossetia flared into Russia's worst post-Soviet ethnic violence. S=NEW STORY Gaviria escalates Colombia crackdown BOGOTA, Colombia - President Cesar Gaviria banned radio and television yesterday from interviewing or broadcasting statements from guerrillas and drug traffickers and warned offenders of drastic sanctions. The ban was one of the the latest measures in a Colombian government crackdown after Sunday night's declaration of a state of emergency to stop guerrilla and drug violence. Another decree yesterday gave sweeping police powers to the armed forces. Meanwhile in Medellin, police said they had arrested Roberto Uribe and Humberto Buitrago, two of cocaine king Pablo Escobar's attorneys, and three of his relatives. And RCN radio said army units killed 27 guerrillas during a fierce battle after uncovering a Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) hideout near La Hormiga in the jungle province of Putumayo. TV reports said helicopter gunships, artillery and aircraft continued to pummel the rebels near the Ecuador border. S=NEW STORY U.N. envoys travel to Savimbi stronghold LUANDA, Angola - U.N. envoys flew to meet with UNITA's leader yesterday to try to head off renewed civil war, while the government said rebels massed near the southern city of Lubango and Luena, capital of the eastern Moxico province. Marrack Goulding, the U.N. undersecretary for peacekeeping, and Margaret Anstee, U.N. representative in Angola, left Luanda for UNITA chief Jonas Savimbi's highland stronghold in Huambo at midday, officials said. They hope to arrange a meeting between Mr. Savimbi and President Jose Eduardo dos Santos. Mr. Savimbi has refused to accept a UNITA defeat in September elections, despite a U.N. assessment that the voting was fair. S=NEW STORY Most Irish favor easing abortion ban DUBLIN - Most Irish people favor relaxing the ban on abortion in their predominantly Roman Catholic country, an opinion survey showed yesterday. The poll, published in the Star newspaper, found that 55 percent back the wording being proposed for a Nov. 25 referendum that will coincide with Ireland's general election. The government has proposed lifting the blanket ban on abortion to allow the operation in certain circumstances when the woman's life is at risk. S=NEW STORY Fischer planning to delay return to U.S. BELGRADE, Yugoslavia - Bobby Fischer plans to stay in Yugoslavia for a few months rather than return to the United States, where he might face government prosecution, a chess promoter said yesterday. Janos Kubat, who arranged Mr. Fischer's chess rematch with Boris Spassky, also said negotiations were stalled on plans for Fischer to play 16-year-old Hungarian prodigy Judit Polgar, the world's top female chess player. Mr. Fischer defeated Mr. Spassky 10-5 in a two-month-long match completed last week and played in defiance of U.N. sanctions imposed on Yugoslavia over the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Mr. Fischer won $3.35 million. U.S. Treasury officials had warned he could face a fine or prison sentence if he went ahead with the contest in Yugoslavia. Mr. Fischer spat on the warning letter at a news conference. S=NEW STORY More gaijin become fluent in Nihongo TOKYO - When former Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu arrived for a meeting with 12 foreign ambassadors to Japan recently, he was stunned and delighted to discover they were all fluent in Japanese. It was the inaugural meeting of the Heisei (achieving peace) Society - founded by Ambassador Musa Mohammed Omer of Sudan and called by the reign name of Emperor Akihito - one more example of how this country's economic miracle is making Japanese an international language. Latest figures show that nearly 1 million people worldwide are studying Japanese, compared with 128,000 in 1979. The top country for students is South Korea, followed by China, Australia, Indonesia and the United States. Since 1979, the European Community has sent more than 450 executives to Japan, where they spend 12 months intensively studying Japanese and six months training at Japanese companies. This article is copyright 1992 The Washington Times. Redistribution to other sites is not permitted except by arrangement with American Cybercasting Corporation. For more information, send-email to usa@AmeriCast.COM